Grease the rope with a little pig fat!
Now that I like! Plus hanging isn't quick if done in traditonal English manner. They just put on the noose and a few strong guys or winch hoisted you up until you strangled, often with breaks. If the charge was treason, after a few hoists, it was followed by disembowllement, then drawing and quatering.
FQ13 who mentions this purely theoretically of course
